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Michael Southworth). She also published “Great Programs in Architecture: Rankings, Performance Assessments, and Diverse Paths to Prominence,” in the International Journal of Architectural Research (2008 2, 2:11–22). Art professor Greg Halpern’s photographs appeared in the group show “Working Title” at Momenta Art in Brooklyn. George Hascup, professor in the Department of Architecture, has been awarded the 2008 Martin Dominguez Award for Distinguished Teaching. Each year, the recipient of this award is nominated by department students and selected by a committee of faculty to receive the distinction and a monetary contribution to the recipient’s research/practice effort. Jean Locey, professor of art, has had a number of recent solo and group exhibitions, including “Investigation by Portraiture: A Collaborative Project” at the Humanities Fine Arts Gallery, University of Minnesota and “Symbolic Formation/Myth into Symbol” at Must Be Contemporary Art Center in Dashanzi, Beijing, China. Locey was on sabbatical leave during the spring 2008 semester and returned to Maine to take up her study of the rocks and water for the series, “Earth Eggs,” and extend the time-based nature of the work—the grids and double and triple images—through video. She was awarded a residency at the MacNamara Foundation, in Westport Island, Maine, where she began this project. Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, visiting scholar in city and regional planning, presented “Conflict Prevention in Africa, Specifically the Case of the Congo” at the 9th annual conference of the Global Development Network in Brisbane, Australia, where he also participated in the workshop called “Fragile State.” His participation was sponsored by the Japan International Development Cooperation in Tokyo, Japan. Graham McDougal, lecturer in the Department of Art, had a solo show called “Republic” at the Rural Research Laboratories at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, NY. Republic is “embodied in a variety of media between representation and abstraction,” including photocopies, transparencies, ink drawings, woodcuts, collage, and more. McDougal also had an Artists Book Project at Printed Matter in New York called Two Seats in the Scottish Parliament and participated in a group show called Re-Group at California State University–Chico in May. Professor of art Todd McGrain showed his work at Spazi Aperti in Rome. Included in the show was a sonogram of the call of the last Dusky Seaside Sparrow and a drawing of the Great Auk. McGrain spent four months working with the zoological museum in Rome on his “Lost Bird Project.” McGrain also exhibited five bronze memorials to extinct birds at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. Jonathan Ochshorn, professor of architecture, will be chairing a paper session at the next Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) in Portland, Oregon, March 2009. The topic, chosen in a peer-reviewed “session topic competition,” is Design Abstraction and Building Construction. Assistant professor of art Maria Park participated in two group shows this summer: “Re-Mix 2” at Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York City and “Ten” at Toomey Tourell Fine Art in San Francisco. Park was also named the 2008 recipient of the Watts Prize for Faculty Excellence in recognition of “distinguished achievement in undergraduate teaching and honors dedication, concern for education, and demonstrated technical expertise….” At the May meeting of the American Historical Prints Society in St. Louis, Professor Emeritus John Reps of City and Regional Planning received the annual award for the best recent book published on American historical prints. John Caspar Wild: Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 2006) was timed to coincide with the opening of an exhibit at the Society of Wild’s views of St. Louis, along with examples of his paintings and prints of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and river towns in and around Davenport, Iowa. At the opening Reps gave a lecture on Wild and his work. Wilka Roig, visiting assistant professor of art, exhibited “Plan Against Loneliness” at Rural Research Laboratories in Elmira, NY. The show—an audience-artist collaboration—started with a waiting room, some seats, some cameras,
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a photography darkroom, and an empty gallery that was filled with photographs as the audience and artist interacted. Also, in June, Roig was an artist in residence at the Center for Photography in Woodstock. Deni Rugerri (M.L.A. ’01, M.R.P. ’01) recently joined Cornell’s Department of Landscape Architecture. Ruggeri has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Milan Polytechnical in Italy. He has master’s degrees from Cornell in both landscape architecture and city and regional planning. In addition, he studied landscape architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently finishing a Ph.D. in landscape architecture and environmental planning at the University of California, Berkeley. For the past seven years, Ruggeri has also been a practicing landscape architect in California. His research focuses on the interface between design and people’s activities in establishing a sense of place; he is particularly interested in suburban landscapes. The inaugural season for the Sibley Slammers recreational softball team, made up primarily of AAP staff, didn’t result in many wins, but did result in many laughs, some exercise, and a few pulled muscles. The Slammers are already looking forward to taking the field next year. Professor Emeritus Stuart W. Stein, CRP, former chair of the Tompkins County Board of Representatives, once half the partnership of the prominent planning firm Blair-Stein, was awarded the first Howard Cogan Tourism Award by the Tompkins County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. Mildred Warner of the Department of City and Regional Planning was promoted to professor. This past spring she and M.R.P. student, Evelyn Israel, worked with the American Planning Association to conduct a nationwide survey of planners’ role in creating familyfriendly cities. Preliminary survey results were presented at the American Planning Association meetings in Las Vegas in April. Warner also edited two new volumes—one on privatization in local government services, stemming from a conference in Barcelona with comparative U.S. and European papers, was in collaboration with Professor Germa Bel of University of Barcelona; the other edited volume was on child care and economic development, with papers from the United States and Canada. Copies can be downloaded from her website at government.cce. cornell.edu/doc/reports/childcare/ijed.asp.
01 Norman Daly at his home in 2004. Credit: Linda Myers. 02 Nancy Brooks. Photo provided. 03 Karen Brummund’s art on a barn project. Credit: Karen Brummund. 04 Graham McDougal. Republic. 2008. 19" x 26". Fatigued wood block print. Rural Research Labs, Elimira, NY. 05 John Nettleton. Photo provided.
FORSYTH AND NETTLETON TO LEAD CUSP City and Regional Planning’s Professor Ann Forsyth has been named campus director, and senior lecturer John Nettleton has been named executive director of the Cornell Urban Scholars Program. Trained in planning and architecture, Forsyth works mainly on the social aspects of physical planning and urban development and how to make more sustainable and healthy cities. She directed the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota (2002–2007) and before that codirected a small community design group, the Urban Places Project. In doing this work she has created a number of new tools and methods in planning—an urban design inventory, GIS protocols, health impact assessments, and participatory planning techniques. Nettleton’s work has most recently focused on sustainable development issues and the role of biofuels, energy efficiency plans, and strategies as community development tools responsive to climate change. Prior to joining CRP, Nettleton directed community economic development efforts for Cornell Cooperative Extension/New York City, where he developed and initiated the State of New York website for MarketMaker, a national network of web-based platforms linking agriculture producers and consumers. He also previously worked with a private advocacy planning practice and served on the governor’s planning team to develop and implement New Jersey’s Pinelands Plan. Nettleton will continue to be based in New York City.AAP
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SWARTZ NAMED COORDINATOR OF CAREER SERVICES FOR PROGRAM IN REAL ESTATE Cornell University’s Program in Real Estate announced that Kimberlee Swartz has accepted a position as coordinator of Career Services. Swartz will coordinate the Real Estate Program’s Office of Career Services, which provides broad real estate career and outreach services to students, alumni, and Cornell Real Estate Council members. In addition to career development advising, Swartz will work closely with the real estate industry to cultivate internship and placement opportunities for Cornell real estate students; she will also be responsible for the Job Barometer, a leading bi-annual report on the commercial real estate job market that is a joint effort between SelectLeaders and the Cornell Program in Real Estate. Before coming to Cornell in 2007, where she has been employed as an executive staff assistant at the Public Service Center, Swartz was an operations manager with Wegmans Food and Pharmacy for 15 years. Swartz received an M.B.A. from Syracuse University and a B.S. in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Rochester Institute of Technology.AAP
NEW JOURNAL RECEIVES GRANT, SET TO LAUNCH NEXT SUMMER Cultural workers yearning for rigorous scholarship and insight into contemporary urbanism will soon have a new resource to turn to. CriticalProductive, a new journal of architecture, urbanism, and cultural theory, will focus on the global forces of design and production, commerce and cultural identity that are shaping the disciplines of architecture and urbansim. “Clearly the discipline of architecture struggles in articulating the cognitive connection between one’s identity and the aesthetic dimension of their spatial and urban environment,” says Milton Curry, associate professor of architecture and the journal’s editor in chief and chairman. “The journal will be a vehicle for creative work that examines this.” CriticalProductive, institutionally supported partially through Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, and outside capital, has recently been awarded a $15,000 competitive production and presentation grant for publication from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, based in Chicago. “We are grateful to the Graham Foundation for its support and its assertion that the journal will make an important contribution to the field of architecture,” says Curry. “This investment in CriticalProductive signifies a growing momentum and interest in the new journal and the excitement for new and emerging voices from a broad spectrum of sectors focused on theoretical discourse.” Curry and his creative team and editorial board are at work on the first issue of CriticalProductive (v1.1: Theoretic Action) which will be published in summer 2009.AAP For further information contact Milton Curry at mcurry@criticalproductive.com.
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